Product Description: Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children...read more

Product Description: What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference is in your hands – every adult has the tools to help a child achieve psychological wellbeing...read more

Product Description: Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication. As new drugs have come on the market and diagnoses have proliferated, prescriptions have increased many times over. The issue has sparked heated debates, with most arguments breaking down into predictable pro-med advocacy or anti-med jeremiads...read more

Product Description: This accessible, informative book will help teachers, parents, and practitioners make sense of current issues and controversies surrounding childhood disabilities.• Contributions from 12 distinguished scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychology, special education, and social work• Case studies and examples from practice that enrich each chapter• Suggestions for further readings and online resources at the end of each chapter• A bibliography of significant research and works in the fields of special education, school psychology, and mental health counselin...read more

An introductory handbook, ideal for professionals working with children, adolescents and their families. Covers all the core aspects of child and adolescent mental health.

Product Description: Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U...read more